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    • Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights

      Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights1

      For just $10.77, people can go on Amazon and buy wall art of Ronald Reagan apparently defending the Second Amendment. “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered,” the text reads next to a picture of Reagan; “any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary.” There are a few problems

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    • What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?

      What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?6

      Recently I ordered a copy of Naomi Wolf’s The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human, and began the book the day it arrived. Like you who are reading my words, I lived through the lockdowns, the masks, the school and church closures, and all the rest of it.

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    • The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’

      The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’2

      If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they spend some of the time crying. Not because the monsters are so scary, but because the kids are so free. It’s like monkeys at the zoo watching a Jane Goodall documentary. In pretty much every episode, Will, Max, Dustin, Lucas, El, and

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    • Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum

      Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum5

      Protesting parents showing up at school-board meetings is one of the new scenes in our cultural landscape in recent months. COVID policies and gender propaganda are big on the list of things parents oppose, but the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) is another issue that raises their hackles. CRT disturbs many parents because it

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    • Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow

      Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow0

      “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s five-year-old son six decades ago. A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while

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    • Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift

      Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift2

      In the spring of 2014, I served as prompter for a local homeschool poetry fest in Asheville, North Carolina. From pre-K students to high school seniors, students marched onto stage and recited verse to an audience composed of family and friends. The little ones trebled out nursery rhymes, middle-schoolers delivered impressive reams of rhymes—Shel Silverstein’s

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